We lost the driver (unintentionally this time) so spent some time admiring the view, then heading into the workaday pub, where we had a beer and watched some Spanish soap operas while we waited for Jose to find us, then we headed out for our last stop of the day, Pedraza.

The town center doubles as the town parking lot, and the surrounding buildings give the (wrong) impression that the town is a prosperous business center. Away from the center, however, activity levels and building heights drop off considerably, although it never sinks into the coma of Penafiel. The town's church, pictured here, was built around the year 1000 and has the distinction of being the first Romanesque church in the province. That distinction wasn't sufficient to get us up the stairs to the church, though, so the photo is as close as we got.

112. Sepulveda

We continued driving through increasingly green and mountainous scenery, stopping at the hilltop town of Sepulveda. This is another sleepy town with nothing in particular to see, but what it lacks in castles it makes up for in views. The town's main street lines the ridge on the hill, with other streets dribbling down the hillside.